#GOVERNMENT

On ASUU StrikeASUU has been on strike since March. That's 8 months now. I'm pondering a few questions and I'm seeking honest answers without prejudice. Are the academic staff paid
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The full text of the Dail statements on combatting racism from this morning has now been publishedhttps://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2020-06-17/2/ Some highlights for me... The thread that follows is not a comment on
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Before this year comes, at long last, to an end -- indulge me as I reflect on some @propublica data team highlights. 2020 was… shall we say… a challenge, but
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I read all these books about Presidents.In honorary of President’s Day, I give you the Greatest Presidential Anecdote.Spoiler: There is a deadly explosion and a marriage proposal. An unbelievable historical
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While we watch events anxiously in the US, how robust is our own electoral system? I suspect few people are aware that the UK Law Commissions recently produced a report
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First up at today's #SpyCopsInquiry is James Scobie QC, speaking for #spyCops victims represented by Paul Heron Scobie: We represent 2 core particpants - Richard Chessum & Mary - from
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After 3.5 beautiful years, my postdoc with @DavidWLawson is ending . I want to highlight some of the things that made working with David exceptionally grand because I appreciate him,
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Twitter often compels us not to post about certain things out of a fear of legitimizing or dignifying them by giving them attention/oxygen. This is why I have largely ignored
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1. On Fri. 8 Jan. Military Intel Contact said to keep phones on, charged and ready for Tier 4B notification as the RV release was being expedited and our start
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Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us. They limit the potential for clarification, redemption, and learning. And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous: the
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Giuliani really has a talent for putting defense arguments as unconvincingly, unappealingly, and suspiciously as possible. If his son were a Manhattan gynecologist he’d go around saying “my boy spends
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Pardon me as I have no special background in this, but it seems like there are two types of political messaging activity: 1. Aiming to find the political mainstream and
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These past few months I've led our team debunking misinformation about Covid-19. You can't tell the story of the pandemic here without talking about all the misinfo. The big q
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Nazi Germany could never even have BEGUN world war 2 without Soviet and US help. (more US, than soviet, but still considerable soviet resources and raw materials) The nazis wouldn't
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THREAD: Japan has some serious climate ambitions, and some even more serious zero-carbon electricity challenges. The latter are becoming existential for Japan Inc 1/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/japan-had-better-find-s
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It's been some time since I did a sovereign citizen "show & tell," but I found some interesting images recently, so I'm sharing.The sovereign citizen movement is an extreme anti-gov't
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